North Korea is threating to cancel next month's highly anticipated summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un if they believe the negotiations will only "drive them into a corner".

The prospect of a Trump-Kim summit had raised anticipations of a deal to denuclearize the Korean peninsula.

Mr Kim appeared to be responding to recent comments made by Mr Trump's security adviser John Bolton and others suggesting North Korea should follow the "Libyan model" of nuclear disarmament.

Thursday's criticism of South Korea marks yet another shift in tone from Pyongyang just weeks before the planned United States summit, the BBC's Laura Bicker in Seoul says. He did explain that North Korea no longer required the site. An earlier report by the country's official news agency had criticised ongoing US-South Korea military exercises as "provocative".

"We shed light on the quality of Bolton already in the past, and we do not hide our feeling of repugnance towards him", he said.

Donald Trump has thrown fresh doubt over a planned United States summit with North Korea next month, saying "we'll have to see".

In 2003, Kadhafi agreed to the elimination of his country's nuclear program and chemical weapons arsenal to gain sanctions relief. North Korea stressed that the drills are a violation of the Panmunjom Declaration signed at the inter-Korean summit. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the US had not heard anything directly from North or South Korea that would change that.

"The North Koreans aren't happy with what they're seeing and hearing", he said.

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